it a dilemma, but what does the impending crash right over the fiscal cliff, as it appears we're going to take that dive, do to this big agenda for his second term that the president is contemplating? >> reporter: i think it totally brings it to a screeching halt, and which is why there is incentive, i think, for the president to do whatever it takes, even if it means maybe going farther than he ever anticipated in trying to get a big deal because if he's got to spend all of 2013 dealing with budget impasse after budget impasse, so can't get it done here in this lame duck, then it takes january, he's got to use his inaugural and the state of the union to argue about fiscal and deficit issues and tax issues. then you have the debt ceiling. i mean, if that's how the first three or four months play out, when does immigration get done, mike? i'm still trying to figure that out. when does he get to the gun issue, which they seem intent on trying to do? when does he start dealing with energy? and by the way, let's remember, second terms, domestically, they don't last four years. you've got a